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Nov 1, 2010

Weak Endnotes


by Cliopatria


  • Four Stone Hearth #104, the anthropology and archaeology carnival, is up at Sorting Out Science.

  • History Carnival XCII goes up at The Early Modern Intelligencer on Monday 1 November. Send nominations of October's best in history blogging to emintelligencer*@*gmail*.*com or use the form.

  • Nominations for the annual Cliopatria Awards will open on Monday 1 November and remain open throughout the month. Be prepared to nominate your candidates for the year's Best Post, Best Series of Posts, Best Individual Blog, Best New Blog, Best Group Blog, and Best Writer.

  • Military History Carnival #26 goes up on Wednesday 17 November at The Edge of the American West. By 15 November, under the header"Military History Carnival Submission", send nominations of the best in military history blogging since mid-August to hwar*@*comcast*.*net.

    • Jonathan Barnes,"Peter Ackroyd's spectral England," TLS, 27 October, reviews Peter Ackroyd's The English Ghost: Spectres through time, Shane McCorristine's Spectres of the Self: Thinking about ghosts and ghost-seeing in England, 1750–1920, and Andrew Smith's The Ghost Story, 1840–1920: A cultural history.

    Linford D. Fisher,"Of Tea Parties, Historical Fundamentalism, and Antihistory," Religion in American History, 27 October, interviews Jill Lepore, whose most recent book is The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History.

    Richard Brookheiser,"Nation Building," NYT, 29 October, reviews Pauline Maier's Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788.

    Allen M. Hornblum,"The Rosenbergs and their persistent apologists," Fortnightly Review, 25 October, reviews Walter and Miriam Schneir's Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case. Hat tip.

    Max Boot,"Arms and the Man," NYT, 29 October, and Mark A. Keefe, IV,"A history of the AK-47, the gun that made history," Washington Post, 29 October, review C. J. Chivers's The Gun.

    Dwight Garner,"A Literary Romance, Rich in A-List Names," NYT, 28 October, reviews Antonia Fraser's Must You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter.

    Michael Nelson,"Warrior Nation," CHE, 24 October, reviews Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, Andrew J. Bacevich's Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, and Richard E. Rubenstein's Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War.

    David Wallace-Wells,"The Pirate's Prophet: On Lewis Hyde," Nation, 27 October, reviews Lewis Hyde's Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership.


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    Chris Bray - 10/30/2010

    Pauline Maier is a wonderful historian, and I'll be anxious to read this new book. Brookheiser's review is just odd -- it reads like an undergraduate book report, with a summary of events and close to no analysis at all. Here's hoping for some more insightful review of what looks like an important book.